St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-08-06
A NEW MOVE.
Leo XIII. Interested in the Next
Italian Election,

LONDON, Aug. 5.-The pope having
resolved to take an active part in Italian
politics, and organized an electloneering
committee to canvass the country in the
interest of vatican candidates for seats
in the chamber of deputies, lively times
may be expected at the next election in
the kingdom. Having made his peace
with Prussia, and placed the church on
pretty good terms with the courts
abroad, his holiness evidently thinks it
time that the only power with which
the vatican is now at variance should
conclude peace with him. Already the
vatican has sufficient number of ad-
herentS in the representative body Of
the Italian legislature to make its voice
potent in the councils of the nation, but
still not enough to influence legislation
in the direction of cOnceding to the
church what it has demanded ever
since Victor Emanuel removed the cap
ital of Italy from Florence to Rome and
took up his residence in the quirinal.
IN THE FIGHT
which the pope is about to engage in for
the restoration of the temporal power of
the church he will be armed with the
weapon of consistency, and it cannot
but serve him well in the blOodlesS en-
gagements that are to take place be-
tween the church and the state. From
the moment that Plus X. was deprived
of his possession Of PalazZa Quieninale,
whose construction by the church lasted
through the reign of four popeS to the
present time, the holy see, by the au-
thority vested in Plus TX. and his sue
ceSS0r, Leo KILL. has contended that
the sacrilegiouS act of Victor Emanuel
virtually made the pope prisoner, and
that the temporal power of the church
was wreSted and withheld from its law
full custodian only by the right of might
and not by any right that morality or
equity could sanction. From this posi-
ton the head of the church has never
wavered. The streets OF Rome have
been as free to the holy father as the
gardens of the vatican palace, yet dur
ing the more than sixteen years that the
spot has represented all that remains of
the once broad territorial domains of the
church, the vicar of Christ has not set
foot in the streets of the Eternal City
where once the progress of the pope
was pageant whose magnifcence was
unsurpassed throughout the world.
THE PRINCELY SUM
which the Italian government has an
nually set apart to the credit of the
pope, and for which special note has
Deen engraved ana QepOSlteu III Une 1lal-
ian treasury, remains untouched. No
where else has ever been shown so COM
plete an example OF faithful endurance,
determination of purpose and consistent
adherence to principle. The line Of
conduct mapped out by Plus TX. and
persistently observed by his successor,
has had no pereeptible effect upon the
Italian government or the Italian
people, but it has had it's
effect, nevertheless. Whenever the
people or the officials have
given any thought whatsoever to this
matter, they have invariably found it to
present the same phases. The Situa-
ton has never changed. AS constant
dropping of water will wear away a
stone, so will constant thought upon
never-changing subject ultimately ar
rive at conviction. The pope has OBJ
served that conviction has been reached
at last and the same patient persever-
ance that has marked his endurance Of
practical imprisonment and deprivation
of his rights will be exerted upon the
people primarily and the government
ultimately, to bring about the cession Of
some portion of the kingdom to the
church, absolutely and irrevocably.